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Children’s Screen Time: How Much Is Too Much?
By: Noah Rue
Access to the internet has expanded our children’s horizons but also has downsides. Screen time should be limited for their physical & emotional health.
Technological innovations provide us with valuable tools that improve our productivity and access to knowledge on a daily basis. School-aged children are benefiting from living in an age of information, where everything that you could ever want to know is available at your fingertips.
Computers, tablets, and smartphones are ever present, offering not only information but also endless entertainment. Finding the right balance between screen time and life in the “real world” is a true balancing act for parents who want their children to be tech-savvy but also have an appreciation for the world around them and a foundation in exercise and the arts.
Television and video games are as enticing to children as ever before and can be played on nearly every smartphone. In a recent Pew Research Center survey, it was found that three-quarters of all teens have their own smartphone.
If left to their own devices, it is possible that parents may rarely have a face-to-face conversation with a child. Although screen time may be a very useful tool in our child’s classroom, limiting screen time outside of education will…
